jive

Example Sentences

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Just because a filmmaker does something with one film that a viewer may not jive with doesn’t mean their work should be refuted forevermore.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Cantrell says he’s experimenting with “vibe coding External link,” which I hear a lot, and sometimes mistakenly call jive coding, which works, too.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Back in the actual 1990s, ice dancers cycled through traditional dances: samba, blues, polka, rumba, quickstep, tango, jive, paso doble, Viennese waltz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

But Robbins didn’t jive with the newspaper’s conservative slant.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

She sounds like a six-year-old reciting lines from a school play about the food groups: You mean you’re supposed to eat jive servings of fruit and vegetables a day?

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman